Religious authorities in Malaysia have stepped up moral policing efforts during the holy month of Ramadan in what critics warn has been part of a wider recent shift toward a more conservative form of Islam in the multi-racial and culturally diverse nation.
With chants and ululations, Iraqi Christians celebrated the inauguration of a recently-restored Chaldean Catholic Church in Mosul on Friday, years after jihadists turned it into a religious police office.Yet Raphael Sako, the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic church, said despite the difficulties, Iraq's Christians have a future in the country.
In Saudi Arabia, the punishment for adultery is stoning to death while in most of the other countries in the Middle East, the punishment ranges between | BLiTZ
The women and young people of Iran are fighting a life-and-death battle against their terror-sponsoring religious dictatorship - Britain and the West must do everything they can to help, writes US Congressman Patrick Kennedy.